{"id":198,"date":"2007-09-01T03:15:25","date_gmt":"2007-09-01T07:15:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/2007\/09\/01\/weeding-out-crazy-lawsuits-outdoor-smoking-ban-limerick\/"},"modified":"2010-01-28T19:50:59","modified_gmt":"2010-01-28T23:50:59","slug":"weeding-out-crazy-lawsuits-outdoor-smoking-ban-limerick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/2007\/09\/01\/weeding-out-crazy-lawsuits-outdoor-smoking-ban-limerick\/","title":{"rendered":"Weeding Out Crazy Lawsuits (Outdoor Smoking Ban Limerick)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As a result of a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.iol.co.za\/index.php?art_id=nw20070823215138271C850211\">neighbor&#8217;s lawsuit,<\/a> a Swedish woman can no longer smoke in most of her garden. (And you thought the United States was a litigious country.)<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Stockholm &#8211; A Swedish woman has been banned by court order from smoking in large parts of her own garden following a complaint from a neighbour&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230; The neighbour, a lawyer, filed the complaint with the court in Vaxjo, in southern Sweden, saying he was obliged to wear a mask in his garden when the neighbour lit up.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Weeding Out Crazy Lawsuits (Limerick)<br \/>\nBy Madeleine Begun Kane<\/p>\n<p>A cig-hating fellow from Sweden<br \/>\nSued a gal cause she smoked during weedin&#8217;.<br \/>\nNow smoking&#8217;s been banned<br \/>\nOn much of her land.<br \/>\nWhat&#8217;s next? Litigation o&#8217;er readin&#8217;? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As a result of a neighbor&#8217;s lawsuit, a Swedish woman can no longer smoke in most of her garden. (And you thought the United States was a litigious country.) Stockholm &#8211; A Swedish woman has been banned by court order from smoking in large parts of her own garden following a complaint from a neighbour&#8230; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[85,10,42,92,20,91,90,32],"tags":[1001,146,997,182,996,998,1004,4965,1002,1003,4963,999,1000],"class_list":["post-198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gardens-plant-humor","category-legal-humor","category-limericks","category-neighbors-humor","category-outdoors-humor","category-smell-humor","category-smoking-humor","category-social-satire","tag-cigarettes","tag-law-humor","tag-lawsuit-humor","tag-lawyers","tag-litigation-humor","tag-litigious-society","tag-neighborly-humor","tag-neighbors-humor","tag-smoke-free-satire","tag-smoking-bans","tag-smoking-humor","tag-sweden","tag-swedish"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=198"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1408,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198\/revisions\/1408"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}